| John Strode | |
| Honorific Suffix: | Kt. |
| Birth Date: | circa 1561 |
| Birth Place: | Parnham, Dorset |
| Death Date: | before 15 July |
| Death Place: | Middle Temple, London |
| Resting Place Coordinates: | 51.5125°N -0.112°W |
| Nationality: | English |
| Occupation: | Lawyer |
| Years Active: | 1590–1642 |
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| Children: | Sir John Strode George Strode Hugh Strode Thomas Strode |
| Parents: | John Strode Katherine Cromwell |
Sir John Strode (c. 1561 – bef. 15 July 1642), of the Middle Temple, London and Chantmarle, Cattistock, Dorset, was an English MP for Bridport in 1621 and 1625.
Born circa 1561, Strode was the third son of John Strode of Parnham, Dorset and his first wife, Katherine, daughter of Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell and Elizabeth Seymour.
Strode was educated at New Inn, then Middle Temple, 1583. He was called to the bar in 1590.
Strode, a lawyer by profession, who gained a reputation as "an honest, trusty, learned, religious gentleman", served as a Justice of the Peace for Dorset by 1593–1642, commissioner sewers 1617, martial law 1626, knighthood compositions 1631, piracy 1631.
He was Autumn reader, Middle Temple in 1611, bencher from 1611 to 1642, treasurer from 1619 to 1620; recorder, Bridport, Dorset from 1618 to 1640.He was knighted at Theobalds 1 December 1623.
He died at the Middle Temple before 15 July in 1642. His widow was murdered defending Parnham House, near Beaminster in Dorset, in 1645 by a soldier under the command of Sir Thomas Fairfax during the Civil War.
Strode married twice. He married firstly, Anne (d. 8 Aug. 1621), daughter of William Chaldecote of Quarleston, Dorset, and widow of Robert Bingham (d. 1587) of Bingham's Melcombe, Dorset, by whom he had no children.
He married secondly, 12 January 1622, Ann (d. 1645), daughter of Sir John Wyndham of Orchard Wyndham, Somerset, by whom he had four sons and two daughters: